Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the former commander of all the German land, sea and air forces in Norway," he an nounced. "Your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the front page, and they described me as the master of land, sea & air." In the course of questioning by General Collins, Falkenhorst later explained that he had received a copy of TIME, containing his picture, from a friend in Sweden. "That is a very excellent magazine," he declared, "and it was a very satisfactory article about me - very satisfactory." Falkenhorst, who said there was never any doubt in his mind...
...week long, lean Laurence Steinhardt, who heard the rumblings of Europe for three years as U.S. Ambassador at the Ankara listening post, was off again for Europe. His destination was Prague, where he would be the first U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. With him would be Major General Clarence Huebner, commander of the Third Army's V Corps, who would continue to command U.S. troops in eastern Germany and be military attache at the Prague Embassy...
...island which had been only a Pan American Clipper stop before the war, five great airfields were clawed out of the hills and jungles. In & out of them flew mail, passengers, plasma, wounded. From the great asphalt acres roared the Super-forts of the 21st Bomber Command. Where Standard Oil had once maintained a few oil tanks, there were now enough facilities to hold four days' output of all the oil wells in Oklahoma...
Overlooking it all, on a hilltop, was the modest wooden home of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Command-the nerve center of the naval force which now rules millions of square miles of ocean. In a bare little cottage which he shared with two other officers lived Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. In the cottage next door, adjoining bedrooms were labeled: "Spruance Room," "Halsey Room...
...week in which the entire U.S. was showering praise on General Eisenhower for the job he did in unifying the diverse Allied commands in Europe, many an armchair strategist in the U.S. cried out for an Eisenhower of the Pacific. They had some reason: the Pacific command, the lines of which were defined none too sharply by Franklin Roosevelt shortly be fore he died, is complicated...